by WorldTribune Staff, April 12, 2020 China’s appointment to a seat on the Consultative Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has sparked global outrage from human rights groups. China’s appointee, Jiang Duan, will be part of a panel that will select the UNHRC’s monitors on health, freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2019 Earlier this year, Democrats introduced the so-called “For the People Act” which critics say proposed government censorship of political speech which is protected by the First Amendment. On Dec. 19, Democrats themselves got a taste of what government censorship of political speech looks like when China’s censors cut the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2019 China is continuing the practice of forcibly harvesting the organs of political prisoners, targeting mostly religious minorities, according to an independent tribunal. According to the 2019 final judgment and summary report by the Independent Tribunal Into Forced Organ Harvesting of Prisoners of Conscience in China, Falun Gong practitioners are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 15, 2018 A letter from 15 Western ambassadors expressing deep concern over China’s detention of some 1 million Muslims in re-education camps has been dismissed by Beijing as hearsay and a violation of the Geneva Convention. The Reuters news agency reported that the letter to the Chinese government, which has not […]